Re: install ok but after boot white screen again

["Árvay Gergely" <arvay@ogyi.hu>]

When you choose linux at boot time, append the "video=vga16:off" after
linux, like:
boot: Linux video=vga16:off


Then if you haven't installed x-window-system, you'll get the console.
Log in, and edit the /etc/lilo.conf file:
there is a line:
# append=""
after that write:

append="video=vga16:off"

then save the file (you have to be root to do that), and run lilo by type:
lilo

But if you installed x-window-system (exactly the xdm, gdm or kdm), after
starting linux, the X will start and if you haven't made a correct
XF86Config file, it won't work. If this is the case, switch to a console
by Ctrl+Alt+F1, kill the wrong X with/etc/init.d/?dm stop
(? is x, g or k depends on your display manager)
do what I'we written for console, and start to config your X.

ÁG

>
> Hi guys and ladys...
>
> I have install debian in my laptop after usin the parameters linux
> video=vga16:off to avoid the white screen just when the drive started
> to read the cd. After install debian, lilo let my choose win or linux.
> I choose linux and the the anoying white screen became again :( ......
> what should I do now that debian is installed to see the console and
> not a white screen?.
>
> Thx everybody
>
>
>
> Rubén Caparrós García